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China Outlines Moon Project Goals

Posted by timothy on from the step-4-profit dept.

Kulic writes "SpaceDaily.com is reporting that China has announced 4 scientific goals for their Moon project. There are three general goals - orbiting the Moon, docking spacecraft with one another in lunar orbit, and returning moon rock samples to Earth. Each step is outlined, with a detailed description of what they hope to accomplish during the orbiting stage. It looks like China is serious about their space program, and is taking an incremental approach."

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  1. Re:Finders keepers... by azzy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The cheese man!!! The CHEESE!!!

  2. Humanity's New Dark Age by MinutiaeMan · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I've heard some historians argue that Human civilization could have been a lot more advanced by now if it hadn't been for the Dark Ages, that sent most of Europe back into superstition and ignorance, and took a thousand years to reverse.

    This time, we're not facing the Barbarian Hordes. No, we've got something much worse -- bureaucracy! How long will it take to untangle ourselves from all this red tape and resume scientific progress? Or are we doomed to another age of arrested growth?

  3. Re:Finders keepers... by Eccles · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The cheese man!!! The CHEESE!!!

    Wensleydale?

    I dunno lad, it's like no cheese I've ever tasted...

    --
    Ooh, a sarcasm detector. Oh, that's a real useful invention.